Celebritude

[Walsingham]

I was just pondering the Google analytics.

 

The top hits, almost every month are celebrities.

 

This had been going to be a thread about how society is doomed. Then I had a thought:

 

Is this just poor quality analytics?

 

If I want to know about nutrition I might put in any search query, and someone else might put in something else. "How many calories in..." or "How bad is fried chicken..." or "RDA of vitamin b"

 

But if I want to know about a celebrity I put in their name and just their name.

 

Consequently, all the celebrity searches get high rankings. But even if health is the key in people's minds, then that interest is subdivided and appears lower down the rankings.

Edited January 17, 2014 by Walsingham

[ShadySands]

Unfortunately, I think it's the doom of our society more than anything else

 

http://www.google.com/trends/topcharts?zg=full

Edited January 17, 2014 by ShadySands

[Amentep]

You'd also have to consider, if I googled a celb, am I trying to find out information about the celebrity or their latest product or even a past product?

 

If I see the trailer for Wolf of Wall Street and can't remember its name but remember that DiCaprio is in it or that Scorsese directed it...well I'm going to search their name.

 

If I see a movie in passing that has Lon Chaney, Jr in it, I might search for Lon Chaney Jr so I can open IMDB, Wikipdedia, and any fan sites in various tabs.

 

Also how many searches are made in a day?  If I search for Jesus Christ, Mahatma Ghandi, Miley Cyrus and Kang the Conqueror, how do you know which one is actually important to me?

 

Also if I search for Rhianna and accidentally close the search and search again and the browser crashes and I open it again and search again for Rhianna, and then link to site but its not a good site, so I hit google again and search again...well that's a lot of searches that might be something simple like trying to find the name of a song I heard on the radio and not an obsessive search for news on Rhianna or pictures of her on vacation falling out of her bikini top.

 

Or something.

Edited January 17, 2014 by Amentep

[Jobby]

 

Also if I search for Rhianna and accidentally close the search and search again and the browser crashes and I open it again and search again for Rhianna, and then link to site but its not a good site, so I hit google again and search again...well that's a lot of searches that might be something simple like trying to find the name of a song I heard on the radio and not an obsessive search for news on Rhianna or pictures of her on vacation falling out of her bikini top.

 

It would be interesting if google had a stat for how many of the celebrity searches are suffixed by "naked" lol

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

Also how many searches are made in a day?  If I search for Jesus Christ, Mahatma Ghandi, Miley Cyrus and Kang the Conqueror, how do you know which one is actually important to me?

Kang the Conqueror is always the most important.

 

It would be interesting if google had a stat for how many of the celebrity searches are suffixed by "naked" lol

If the celeb in question is sexy, upwards of 75%.

[ShadySands]

by the way, did you hear Johnny Depp got engaged to Amber Heard (naked)?

[Walsingham]

by the way, did you hear Johnny Depp got engaged to Amber Heard (naked)?

 

Typical. How come it works for him?

[Nonek]

Who is Amber, and how did she hear nakedness? I've seen it but never heard it.

 

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[Monte Carlo]

She's also bi-sexual, is Texan and likes guns. Poor old Johnny Depp, eh?

 

Edited January 18, 2014 by Monte Carlo

[Amentep]

 

Also how many searches are made in a day?  If I search for Jesus Christ, Mahatma Ghandi, Miley Cyrus and Kang the Conqueror, how do you know which one is actually important to me?

Kang the Conqueror is always the most important.

 

Indeed. Take that Immortus!

 

 

It would be interesting if google had a stat for how many of the celebrity searches are suffixed by "naked" lol

If the celeb in question is sexy, upwards of 75%.

 

Are 90% of results still photoshop fakes though...?

[LadyCrimson]

The only reasons I Google a "famous celeb" are:

 

1-I saw them in a movie and I want to know what other work they've done because I either know I've seen them before and can't place where I've seen them before, or they impressed me and I just want to see more of their work.

2-I'm trying to look up a film but I can't remember the name of the film, but do remember who the big star was.

3-I want to know how to spell their hard-to-spell name so I can cut and paste it into something I'm writing.

4-I'm really bored and a funny YouTube video led me to wonder who the heck is this person/group/whatever that the 'net is poking fun with

5-they're really handsome and I just want a wallpaper of their gorgeous mug for my desktop.

 

Other than that, I don't pay much attention to celeb news. Course, when I was 13, I would've loved to have the internet to stalk read about my celeb crushes. Sadly all I had was the monthly periodicals at the library and a Xerox machine to make fuzzy blk & wht copies of articles, using a lot of nickels. The stone ages, man, the stone ages.

[Malcador]

I should start searching for them, I have no idea who any of these people are!

[Meshugger]

She's also bi-sexual, is Texan and likes guns. Poor old Johnny Depp, eh?

 

 

Hubba-Bubba!     

[Gorth]

The only reasons I Google a "famous celeb" are:

 

1-I saw them in a movie and I want to know what other work they've done because I either know I've seen them before and can't place where I've seen them before, or they impressed me and I just want to see more of their work.

2-I'm trying to look up a film but I can't remember the name of the film, but do remember who the big star was.

3-I want to know how to spell their hard-to-spell name so I can cut and paste it into something I'm writing.

4-I'm really bored and a funny YouTube video led me to wonder who the heck is this person/group/whatever that the 'net is poking fun with

5-they're really handsome and I just want a wallpaper of their gorgeous mug for my desktop.

 

Other than that, I don't pay much attention to celeb news. Course, when I was 13, I would've loved to have the internet to stalk read about my celeb crushes. Sadly all I had was the monthly periodicals at the library and a Xerox machine to make fuzzy blk & wht copies of articles, using a lot of nickels. The stone ages, man, the stone ages.

 

 

I think I can relate to most of these points. Except possibly not giving a damn about the entertainment industry these days. Bands come and go, one hit wonders come and go, movies gets advertised and I don't remember the name (much less watching anything, not even youtube of them). I guess there really is something about the age thing. Maybe it's the comfort of familiarity that I return to the "oldies" when listening to music or the rare occasion where I can sit through an entire movie on the DVD player.

 

Point in case, I keep hearing *about* this Biber guy, but I don't think I've ever heard *him*. Same thing about this young girl, what's her name that keep ending up in court with drug/alcohol issues. It's almost like a completely alien world to me.

[Walsingham]

Who is Amber, and how did she hear nakedness? I've seen it but never heard it.

 

If you were in a dark room and heard a sort of breathy exhalation, and then the sound of satin falling. Surely that would be the sound of nakedness.

[213374U]

Without knowing the internal workings, I doubt we'll ever know if it's a fail on their part, or humanity's. And considering how expensive big data analysis is, it probably falls under "trade secret".

 

However, # of comments on news sites depending on the subject would seem to reinforce your point (no I have not actually taken a statistical approach, just my appreciation).

 

I remember seeing a scumbag Steve pic that went like "has the power of the greatest information highway ever devised at his fingertips - uses it to look for porn"... so yeah.

[Walsingham]

I remember seeing a scumbag Steve pic that went like "has the power of the greatest information highway ever devised at his fingertips - uses it to look for porn"... so yeah.

 

I don't feel that's letting the side down. To quote Coupling:

 

 

When Man invented fire, he didn't say "Hey, let's cook!" He said: "Great! Now we can see naked bottoms in the dark!" As soon as Caxton invented the printing press we were using it to make pictures of - hey! - naked bottoms. We've turned the Internet into an enormous international database of... naked bottoms. So, you see, the story of male achievement through the ages, feeble though it may have been, has been the story of our struggle to get a better look at your bottoms. Frankly, girls, I'm not so sure how insulted you really ought to be.